Visualizing the Tragic

Chris Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University.Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University.Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

• The Red-Gold Border ; I. VISUALIZING TRAGEDY ; Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad ; Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and Elite Negotiation in Fifth-Century Thebes ; Outer Limits, Choral Space ; II. DRAMA ON DRAMA ; What's in a Wall? ; Euripides and Aristophanes: What Does Tragedy Teach? ; III. DRAMA AND VISUALIZATION: THE IMAGES OF TRAGEDY AND MYTH ; Looking at Shield Devices: Tragedy and Vase Painting ; The Invention of the Erinyes ; A New Pair of Pairs: Tragic Witnesses in Western Greek Vase-Painting ; Medea in Eleusis, in Princeton ; IV. VISUALIZING DRAMA: THE DIVINITIES OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY ; Tragedy Personified ; Nike's Cosmetics: Dramatic Victory, the End of Comedy, and Beyond ; Everything to do with Dionysus? (Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, inv. MM 1962:7/ABV 374 no. 197) ; V. THE HISTORY OF TRAGIC VISION ; Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy ; Philostratus Visualizes the Tragic: Some Ecphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era ; Envisioning the Tragic Chorus on the Modern Stage ; V. CODA ; Rencontre avec Froma ; Presence de Froma Zeitlin

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